How to sample in matlab by multinomial distribution?

I know for a random variable x that P(x=i) for each i=1,2,...,100. Then how may I sample x by multinomial distribution, based on the given P(x=i) in matlab?
I am allowed to use matlab build in commend
rand
and
randi
but not
mnrnd.
Thank you!

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What have you done so far?
I use
t = cmusum(P)
command to compute the cdf of P(x=i). Then I use
rand
to find a number between (0,1), and find for what i that t(i)>rand. Then I output x(i).
This is my impression for sampling with a distribution. But I am not sure this is sampling with mutinoimal distribution...

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